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Translation is mostly wrong, it completely made things up.

Source: studied Akkadian for two years in University.




Glad to see other students of Akkadian here!

Yeah, I had a little bit of luck with phonetic transcription - producing standard readings from the closely transcribed cuneiform. But mostly no. And it failed at translation with anything beyond the simplest two / three word phrases. Although the fact that it can do even that, sort of, is impressive, given that Akkadian -> English was certainly not something ChatGPT was optimized for.



So what do the tablets say?




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